Transportation-ticket.



C. MESSICK. TRANSPORTATION TICKET. APPLICATION FILED MAY 17, 1912.

1,1 21,109. Patented Dee. 15, 1914l 1HE MORRIS PEYERS 1:0.PHOYOVUTHD-WASHINLAWND c Vpleted as a imi CHARLTON MESSICK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TRANSPORTATION-TICKET.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

Applicationled May 17, 1912. Serial No. 697,931.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLTON Messick, a citizen of the United States, and a resident ofthe city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Transportaton-Tickets, of which the following is a specification;

My invention relates to the Y socalled scrip or mileage books, which comprise a cover inside of which is folded a long strip of paper having printed thereon a series of numbered marks extending in a series longitudinally thereof. These marks represent iuiitsof money or mileage, as the case may be; and aA portion of therstrip comprising the required number Vof units is detached either by the conductor, when the same is good for transportation, or byv the ticket agent in exchange for a passage ticket, according to the requirements of the carrier. Each of these methods of use has certain advantages and certain disadvantages; and it is the purpose of the present invention to combine the advantages of both methods and at the saine time eliminate the principal disadvantages of each.

My invention'is hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing which forms pai-tof this specication and wherein like symbols refer to like they occur, Figure l is a perspective view of a book conforming to my invention, and showinga portion of the units Vstrip compassage ticket and detached from and Fig. 2 shows a modified form passage ticket and the end units strip from which it is the book; of a completed portion of the detached.

The construction illustrated in F ig. l is a book comprising a cover l and an elongated strip 2 of paper pasted or otherwise secured at one end to said cover and folded toV t therein. Along each side margin of the strip is printed a scale marks 3, 4 at equal distances to indicate units of money or mileage. The strip also hasfprinted thereon a series of consecutive numerals 5 extending the full length of the strip. Also extending the full length of the unit strip 2 and arranged in two parallelrows are repetitions o f certain identification parts wherever or series of data such as a certain letter Vor letters and a certain numeral. The letter or letters are usually they initials of the name of the carrier issuingthe book, and the numeral on the strip is usually ticiilar strip in the of the identification numeral, thereof, is

the number of that pardata, for instance, the printed on the cover.

In the case of the particular strip illustrated in Fig. l of the drawing,the letter M is the identification letter or initial Vthat is repeated at frequent intervals, and the number 100 is the identification numeral that is likewise repeated.

Extending the full length of the strip 2 substantially midway between the sides thereof, is a line 6 of scoring or perforations,

whereby the strip is separable lengthwise into sections, whose respective uses may be suitably indicated and which are hereinafter referred to as Vthe accounting section Vor stub section 7 and the passage section 8. This line of scoring or perforations lies between the parallel rows of repetitions of the identification data; and consequently each longitudinal section of the ticketV contains the same scale and the same serial repetition of identification letter andnumber. This duplication of scale and identification data is Y hereinafter referred to by the term duplex My invention contemplates that the endV portion of the passage section of the strip shall be validated by to convert the same into a For Vthis purpose, the ticket tach from the end of the accounting section of the duplex strip the number Vof units required for the particular trip; and then he will write on the corresponding .portion of the passage section the name of the place of destination and then imprint Vthereon his official stamp 10 bearingthe name of the place of origin, date of validation. The portion of the passage section thus validated may be either left integral with the main strip oi' detached by the ticket agent, according as the regulations of the carrier may require. If left by the ticket agent integral with the main strip, it will be detached by the conductor. It is preferable to leave an imprinted space 1l duplex the ticket agent passage ticket.

total issue; and 'enough agent will dename of the carrier and the Y ductor and is more likely to be eifected without error than is tion ofthe section is difference being that an association interchangeably.

from the bureau section are extending longitudinally of the ticket to reprinted tickets as required by present practice, as one section of the end portion of the. unitsl strip 'is converted into a passage ticket by the act of thev ticket agent, and the other section of the duplex end portion serves as a self-checking stub therefor. In the next place, as, the detachment is made by the ticket agent, it saves the time of the con feasible when the detachment 'is left to the conductor. Besides, it guards against dishonesty on the part of the conductor in detaching too small a portion of `the strip through collusion with the passenger. Also, vit dispenses with the more or less complicated work of the ticket agent necessary for a proper accounting; because the` conductor is required to take up and return to the accounting department the ticket as validated by the agent, and,vthere fore, the agent need only return to the accounting department the corresponding stub or duplicate section of the end porduplex strip which stub was him for the purpose.

detached by illustrated in Fig. 2 yem- The construction bodies my invention in a form adapted for the use of the several carriers belonging to This form comprises the saine elements as trated in Fig. 1; but it also comprises, in addition, third section 19J extending the full length of the units strip. This third hereinafter referred to as the is preferablythe middle one of the three, being separated from the accounting section on one side and from the passage section on the other by lines 6 of bureau section and perforations o-r scorings so as to be Veasily severed therefrom. This bureau strip takes care of the business with the bureau or association in like manner as described above withl reference to the accounting strip, the the detachments from the laccounting strip are forwarded by the ticket agent to the auditor or accounting department of his own company, whereas the detachments made by the conductor forwarded by him to the bureau or association. Such detachments are substantially identical and constitute in eect self-checking stubs for the passage ticket.

lVhat I claim is 1. A ticket of the kind described comprising a strip having a line of perforations or the like extending longitudinally thereof and separating the strip into sections suit- 'lengthwise thereof those illusably indicated for accounting and for passage, the endmost portion of the passage section having thereon the name of the place of destination andthe stamp yoftheplace of origin so as to constitute a passage ticket, substantially "as and for the purpose described.

e. A ticket of the. kind @essermi` @0mprising a strip having. a scale extending and having a line'V of perforations or equivalent devices extending lengthwise thereof and separating the strip into sections suitably indicated for account ing andfor passage section, the endmost portion of the assage section havingthereon the naine o the place `of destination and ythe stamp of the place of origin so as to constitute a passage ticket, substantially `as for the purpose described.

3. A ticket of the kind described comprising a strip having al line of perforations or thelike extending longitudinally thereof and separating the strip into an accounting section anda passage section,

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dated to v constitute a passage'ticket andthe corresponding portion of the accounting section constituting a self-checkingstub for said ticket, substantially as and forth'e purlpose'described. f` f 4. A ticket I the endmost portion of vsaid passage section being vali#v of the kind described @om-z; prising a cover and a stri-p folded'therein" and having a line of perforations 'extending the full length .thereof to accounting section and a passage section, each of said sections havingy acontinuously marked scale extending lengthwise thereof,V l sections and said cover having certain identification marks in coinand each lof said mon, the endmost portion of the passage section being provided with data toconstitute a passage ticket, and thecorresponding portion of the accounting section constituting a self-checking stub thereof.

v 5. VA ticket of the kind describedcoine .prisin'g numbered scale kextending lengthwise thereof, said strip having lines of perforations lorv the like extending lengthwise thereof to divide the same intoV a passage sectioinan accounting section and a bureau section, all r cover havingv cersuitably indicated, said tain identication data, and the same data beingI repeated at intervals along each of said Sections;

6. In a ticket, the combination of 'a con-" tinuous mileage or scrip strip and a suitably indicated trip passage ticket section separably connected along the side thereof.`r`

7. In a ticket, the'combination of a cony tinuous scrip or"mileage strip, and a suitably indicated trippassageticket section and a self-checking accounting sectionl sepa-- rably connected to said continuous' strip.;v

8. A ticket vcomprising acontinuou's strip divide it into an,

a lcover and a strip having a serially ioc having a plurality of separable portions Signed at St. Louis, Missouri, this 15th each having identification marks thereon inY day of May, 1912.

common, the enclmost portion of said strip CHARLTON MESSICK.V alone bearing thereon the designation of the Witnesses:

5 place of destination'and the authentication JAMES A. CARR,

mark of the initial point. M. A. SHELTON.Y

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